Hey, how’s the diet going, anyway?

I am sitting right now at about -10 pounds, relative to what I was when I started all this on April 1. I think the best way to describe my eating habbits as of late are “South Beach Light.” For example, I just had a bagel with cream cheese, although it was a 9 grain/lower carb bagel, according to the advertising at least. It’s been kind of hard “being good” since Halloween. There was a lot of candy around the house for that, and then Annette’s birthday party and its decidedly non-SB menu was last weekend. I think I’m still working off some of that weight.

Kind of a strange twist though: the week before Annette’s birthday, right after Halloween, I didn’t go to the gym at all. I was busy, Will was out of school for a lot of it because of parent-teacher conferences, I was lazy, etc. My weight stayed about the same, maybe even dropped a bit, though I didn’t feel that great. This last week, I decided that– damnit!– I need to go to the gym no matter what. I went five times, Monday through Friday, though I was only there for about 30-40 minutes. Now, on the one hand, I feel great, a lot better than I’ve felt for quite a while. On the other hand, despite the extra excercise, I actually gained weight, about a pound and a half. Fat to muscle? Actually eating more and not really realizing it? I dunno.

Anyway, what I’d like to do is make it through the holidaze being somewhere between -10 and -15, and then make another weight loss push at the start of the year. Stay tuned for details…

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I'm a writer and a professor at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, Michigan. You can learn more than you want to learn about me by clicking on "about." You can contact me by sending email to skrause at emich dot edu.